I am sure you could have expected this article to come at some point after the release of iOS 6.1.3. ZDNet has reported that the iOS 6.1.3 firmware has troubles with battery life (doesn’t every firmware version?). If you browse Apple’s technical support forums and Twitter, however, you will indeed find that many people have reported battery woes on [...]

Now that you’ve successfully jailbroken your iPhone 5, iPad Mini or other device running on iOS 6.1, it’s time to install some cool and useful tweaks. If you haven’t, you can refer to our guides and get it over with. Here’s a new tweak that lets you hide the battery percentage, and reveal it only [...]

It seems like almost every firmware iteration I write an article regarding battery life issues. Yesterday, TheNextWeb wrote a large piece on the amount of Apple support threads claiming issues with battery life on iOS 6.1. I have heard mixed stories from comments and Twitter about whether battery life has been effected on iOS 6.1. [...]

When Apple released the iOS 6.0.2 firmware, not much was known about it, besides the fact that it fixed a bug that could impact Wi-Fi. My guess was that this could have had something to do with improving the reliability when being connected to a 5GHz band Wi-Fi network, but it could very well could [...]

According to a TechCrunch report today, Apple will be getting their Macbook and iPad batteries from a new supplier, as Samsung SDI (the division of Samsung that makes batteries) has ditched their arrangement with Apple. The iPad maker will now be sourcing their batteries from two Chinese firms, Amperex Technology Limited and Tianjin Lishen Battery. [...]

If you have a modern smartphone, with a big screen and some form of high speed data, you’re probably really sick of charging it. Most smartphones these days need to be charged almost every day, because they suck more power than ever before. One of the biggest causes of this electricity suck is power amplifiers [...]

In the last few weeks a lot of purported iPad Mini parts have been surfacing online. We’ve seen plenty of mockups, housings, displays and other parts that claim to belong to the iPad Mini. Apple is rumored to unveil the device at a special event on October 23rd. In fact, several big sites like AllThingsD [...]

According to EurekAlert, a news service operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Engineers at US San Diego have developed a formula that will allow batteries to run more efficiently. According to the report the estimation algorithms would allow batteries to be made up to 25% cheaper and fully charge in half the time. The algorithms would [...]

It has been nearly a week since the introduction of the iOS 6 firmware generation and as such I think it is pretty safe to say most people who are not Jailbreak fans have upgraded their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Like any new firmware generation, there always seem to be some hiccups. Arguably the [...]

Here’s some progress for those of us putting together our new iPhones one piece at a time. 9to5Mac has published photos that appear to be a leaked battery for the anticipated but unannounced next iPhone. (Leaked as in “revealed before the phone’s release,” not “dripping with battery acid.”) When we compared the images of the [...]